December 2010
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Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat up,...
“In dreams the seaside or beach represents a new dimension of experience. This image often appears in dreams when you feel you are through the worst of things; it is therefore a harbinger of hope, growth and change.”
"Spinster" by Sylvia Plath
Now this particular girl During a ceremonious april walk With her latest suitor Found herself, of a sudden, intolerably struck By the birds' irregular babel And the leaves' litter. By this tumult afflicted, she Observed her lover's gestures unbalance the air, His gait stray uneven Through a rank wilderness of fern and flower; She judged petals in disarray, The whole season, sloven. How she longed...
brightlywound:
“Wagon Wheel (Old Crow Medicine...
pastichepastiche asked: thanks for the follow :)
peanut butter and crackers, no pants on. need to wash hair. this is my life.
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer. (via fuckyeahpastiche)
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Toss n turn
“if the moon smiled, she would resemble you. you leave the same impression of ...”
– sylvia plath. (via fuckyeahpastiche)
“I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (via silklace)
sarahlynmonroe:
I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them; hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior, and I am tired of telling you why
“A man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night
May still become a...”
– Florence + the Machine, Howl
“I’m going out, I’m gonna drink myself to death And in the crowd I see you with someone else, I brace myself, Cause I know it’s going to hurt, But I like to think at least things can’t get any worse. No home, I don’t want shelter, No calm, Nothing to keep me from the storm, And you can’t hold me down, ‘Cause I belong to the hurricane, ...
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights (via credoquia)
The other night I dreamt that there was a line of men outside the alley by my bedroom looking into a window of the building next door. Creepy right?
Creepier: just now, my roommate got out of the shower and saw a man’s face pressed up against the bathroom in our window. Then we saw him standing in the grass outside our front window, just staring in.
I dreamt that shit. And it happened....
I want a Mark Darcy re: Bridget Jones’ Diary. He’s so sexy and aloof but admits his feelings.
And after the storm, I run and run as the rains come And I look up, I look up, on my knees and out of luck, I look up. Night has always pushed up day You must know life to see decay But I won’t rot, I won’t rot Not this mind and not this heart, I won’t rot. And I took you by the hand And we stood tall, And remembered our own land, What we lived for. And there will come a time,...
I got a job at Borders! You know, life is good. I just have such a hard time living in the moment and appreciating the things that don’t go wrong. If I were a character in a story, that would be my character flaw. I’m done with the semester and start work tomorrow.
I’m watching Man Vs. Food on the Travel Channel and am consequently craving everything on the show.
“I see your frown and it’s like looking down the barrel of a gun, and it...”
– Arctic Monkeys, Mardy Bum
"I wonder what I was in a past life." "Probably a...
Right now, inside my apartment on this couch with a single lamp lighting the room, all is well with my world. It is quiet, the way I like it. Things get resolved. They are rarely the worst thing that has or ever will happen to you. It is difficult to see that when it’s happening, though.
Tonight my roommate and I were discussing our beliefs about reincarnation and parallel universes, and...
thatgirlpatty:
Ben Kweller - Sundress...
“Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.”
– Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“And if a double-decker bus crashes in to us, to die by your side is such a...”
– There Is a Light That Never Goes Out — The Smiths
I’m doing it, I’m really doing it now.